Shoe-tongue



( No. 623,350. Patented Apr. l8, I899.

B. L. BLANC.

SHOE TONGUE.

(Application filed Apr. 21, 1898.'\

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lINirnn STATES PATENT ()FFICE.-

BRIDGET L. BLANC, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SHOE-TONGUE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 623,350, dated April 18, 1899.

Application filed April 21, 1898.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BRIDGET L. BLANc, a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe-Tongues, of which the following, when taken in connection with the drawings and reference-letters thereon, accompanying and forming a part hereof, is a full and complete description sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to which it pertains to understand, make, and use the same.

The object of this invention is to provide a shoe-tongue the use whereof will obviate pains and injuries to the instep of a person wearing a shoe having such shoetongue therein.

Briefly describing the same, this invention comprises a padded shoe-tongue, which may be secured in place by the shoe-lacing, not requiring to be stitched in place in the shoe with which it is used, which is not unsightly in appearance, and which will protect the foot from any injurious effect by the shoelacing, the tongue itself, or by the meeting edges of the shoe.

In the drawings referred to and wherein aletter of reference applied to a given part is used to designate such part throughout the several views, Figure 1 is a plan View of a tongue embodying the invention; Fig. 2, a

vertical longitudinal section thereof on line 2 2 of Fig. 1 viewed in the direction indicated by the arrows, and Fig. 3 a front elevation of the upper part of a shoe having the tongue illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 attached thereto.

For convenience of referring'thereto the tongue is lettered X and the shoe Y.

A is a webbing forming one face of the tongue, and B a webbing forming the other face thereof.

C is the padding of the tongue, and consists, preferably, of horse-hair, cotton, wool, or other suitable material.

D D is stitching extending between webbing A and B and holding such webbing, together with the padding C, in proper relative position.

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which the lacing G extends when the tongue is not stitched to a shoe, and I I are also holes through which such lacing extends.

J J are the lacing-holes of a shoe, such holes, as Well as the lacing, forming, of course, no part of my invention.

The padding C maybe of substantially the same thickness throughout the tongue; but I prefer to have such padding thicker throughout the central body part of the tongue than at the ends, as shown in Fig. 2, or sides, as in such case better protection is afforded the foot of the wearer and a more sightly appearance is given thereto.

I prefer to have the under webbing of the tongue of woven fabric and the upper webbing A of thin leather.

When the tongue is used with a shoe to which it is not stitched, (such being the principal use thereof,) the shoe lacing is put through the holes H H and I I, as is well illustrated in Fig. 1, and such lacing is then put up through the lower two of the holes G, as is well shown in Fig. 3. Then this is done, the tongue will remain in place, particularly when the thickness thereof in the body part is greater than at the sides and ends when the lacing is laced thereover, and the tongue will protect the instep of the wearer from inury.

If desired, medication can be placed on the under side of the tongue to be absorbed, if in a liquid form, by the under webbing and by the padding.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A removable, padded shoe-ton gue provided embedded in the tongue; substantially as described.

BRIDGET L. BLANC.

In presence of-' FLORA L. BROWN, FRANK B. IVIEEOH. 

